[squeak-dev] What is the squeak equivalent of VA Smalltalk's ObjectLoader and ObjectDumper?

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Wed Jan 11 20:21:37 UTC 2017


Hi Lou
On 11.01.2017, at 20:14, Louis LaBrunda <Lou at Keystone-Software.com> wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
> 
>>> What is the squeak equivalent of VA Smalltalk's ObjectLoader and ObjectDumper?
>> What do they do?
> 
> ObjectDumper serializes objects and ObjectLoader deserializes the resultant string.  They work
> with in memory stream or disk files.  I think things like Fuel, Ma Serializer and SIXX would be
> based on classes like ObjectLoader and ObjectDumper.  But I'm not sure.
> 
> I only need a very lite version so I don't think I need those full packages (again I'm not
> sure).
> 

While DataStream/SmartRefStream are the traditional Squeak way of serializing objects, I'd go with Fuel.

There is no "abstract" object serializer in Squeak.

Best regards
	-Tobias


> Lou
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